Galerie La Forest Divonne

Name: Caribai – L’empreinte du vent
Start: 2023-03-09T00:00:00+01:00
End: 2023-04-22T23:59:59+02:00
Location: Galerie La Forest Divonne

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"L’Un et l’autre" - Bernadette Chéné

From September 8 to October 29, Bernadette Chéné returns under the glass roof of the Galerie La Forest Divonne with a set of sculptures in raw and strong materials: cut metal plates, erected trunks, whose timeless beauty is revealed through an intervention as subtle as it is surprising. Here, the metal seems simply cut with a chisel and suddenly reveals a perspective, a play of light or unsuspected shapes. Elsewhere, it is a strong tree trunk in which Bernadette Chéné pierces a window, which she polishes or cuts like a comb. Bernadette Chéné is a transmitter of emotions. In materials so familiar that sometimes we don’t see them anymore, she detects the beauty, the unexpected, the surprising, and gives us to see it. With delicacy, she takes the visitor by the hand, and seems to want to efface herself in front of the material and the forms that she creates, leaving us all to our encounter with the work.

Bernadette Chéné is a visionary. She sees in the simplest things around us what must be revealed, quietly, but with an imperious necessity. In her childhood, shopkeepers used to use « coches « to keep track of customers’ orders: they would mark a wooden stick with a knife at each passage. From this memory, Bernadette Chéné has created a magnificent series of wooden sculptures, with bold cuts, from simple branches to imposing tree trunks, like totems.
Or these large cut-out trunks: who has never been sensitive to the cut of a pencil? Chéné cuts a whole trunk with a blade, polishing the marvelous rings of the wood that one suddenly has the irrepressible desire to touch, letting a pleasure and buried memories come to the surface.

Images

Ⓒ Galerie La Forest Divonne – Bernadette Chéné, L’histoire se déroule, 2002, papier journal, métal, 170x80x40cm

Ⓒ Galerie La Forest Divonne – Bernadette Chéné performance à la galerie La Forest Divonne, 2017

Ⓒ Galerie La Forest Divonne – Bernadette Chéné, Une Face peut en cacher une autre, détail, 2019, papier journal et métal, 187x103x43cm

La forest divonne Bernadette Chéné, Dans la Perspective 1 sur 3, acier, 220 x 225 x 8 cm, 2018 courtesy by La forest divonne

La forest divonne Bernadette Chéné, La montée, bois, h 330 × diam 70 cm, 2022 courtesy by La forest divonne

la forest divonne Bernadette Chéné, Toute une histoire 1 sur 3, métal découpé, 60 x 39 x 10 cm, 2017 courtesy la forest divonne

la forest divonne Bernadette Chéné, Vers l’aigû .., Bois, h.70× 20 × 20 cm, 2022 courtesy by la forest divonne

La forest divonne Bernadette Chéné, L’écorce en marche, Bois, h 60 × diam 40 cm, 2015 courtesy by La forest divonne

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About Galerie La Forest Divonne

Founded in 1988 by Marie Hélène de La Forest Divonne, the Galerie Vieille du Temple became Galerie La Forest Divonne in 2015, when it expanded on rue des Beaux-Arts, in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés, within the walls of the legendary Galerie Loeb. In 2016 it opened a second gallery in Brussels, in a spectacular Art Nouveau building. For more than 30 years, the Gallery has been committed to the public, collectors and institutions to promote and develop the work of the artists it defends, in its galleries and at fairs. It currently collaborates with 25 international artists, of all generations, in all contemporary practices, from painting and drawing to photography, video, sculpture and installation.

Galerie La Forest Divonne Opening Hours

DURING BGW : Thu 11 am > 9 pm Fri - Sat 11am - 7pm - Sun 11am - 6pm OTHER mardi - samedi 11h-19h

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Galerie La Forest Divonne

Galerie La Forest Divonne

Rue de l'Hôtel des Monnaies 66, Munthofstraat, 1060 Saint-Gilles
Brussels, Belgium Get Directions

+32 2 544 16 73

https://www.galerielaforestdivonne.com/fr/accueil/

April 2023

March 9 - April 22

Caribai – L’empreinte du vent

Galerie La Forest Divonne Rue de l'Hôtel des Monnaies 66, Munthofstraat, 1060 Saint-Gilles, Brussels

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